The skills needed for a successful accounting career may not be what you think. Yes, spreadsheets are vital, as is knowledge of Excel functions. But you need more than that if you want to stand out ...

Entrepreneurs need to draw on a wide variety of skills to succeed. In the course of a single day, you may wear 10 or more different proverbial “hats.” In other words, you may take on 10 or more ...

As the need for strategic CFOs continues to grow, finance leaders need to learn how to treat data as a “means to an end” — ...

Accounting professionals can work in auditing, tax and even managerial accountant positions. Additionally, accountants also work in accounts payable and accounts receivable, keeping track of a company ...

This issue of Generational Viewpoints features two individuals from Milligan and Co. (www.milligancpa.com), a Philadelphia-based multi-office firm with 50 employees. Generation X partner Jovan ...

Career and job posting website Indeed assessed 2,900 skills to determine if they had the potential to be transformed by ...

There’s some understandable concern these days about the possibility that increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to job losses among accounting and audit professionals. But Mike ...

I recently sat down with Sandra B. Richtermeyer, Ph.D., CMA, CPA and IMA Chair-Emeritus for the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year, to talk management accounting. In her day job, Sandra is chair of the ...

Many small-business owners need to be a jack-of-all-trades. As a business grows, the company gets more of an opportunity to hire employees to focus on administrative tasks, but in the first few years, ...